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So if you have the majority of racing on street circuits, how do you "sell" this to a prospective random city? There would be an enormous push back regarding closing the public thoroughfares (remember, people live and work in these places) a day earlier than if the race were to be on Sunday. To accomodate that, then, you have to compress practice, qualifying and all the support events so that everything is done on Saturday (face it, having the Main Event Saturday effectively ends the event - few will come Sunday to watch support races).
Now we get to the fun part: $$. Many of you here support the move to "profitable venues." Now, if you eliminate one day then that means fans, teams, etc leave your city in droves on Saturday night with few lingering to Sunday rather than droves spending $$ like crazy all day Sunday and flying out Sunday or Monday. Few hotel rooms are booked, fewer meals purchased and pretty soon the great economic benefits from having a CC race in your hometown are not so great. Support among the business community dwindles, political support dwindles and soon there is no invitation.
As much as it would benefit them to market a product that is not superior to the other things on TV on Sunday's, going to a Saturday main event would be far worse.
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